A new Fokker-Planck approach for relaxation-driven evolution of galactic nuclei
We present an approach for simulating the collisional evolution of spherical isotropic stellar systems based on the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation. A novel aspect is that we use the phase volume as the argument of the distribution function, instead of the traditionally used energy, which fac...
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American Astronomical Society
2017
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